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Since I bought a new laptop, I'll need to install linux on it. (I may not bother installing windows on it at all.)

I have used Linux Mint and Pop!_OS (The dumbest OS moniker ever, IMO). Pop has been wearing thin. Mint was stable but not exactly . . . cool? Inspiring? And also just another debian fork.

If you were to recommend to me a flavor of linux, what would it be? I am NOT a dev, I don't game, and I mostly just complain on nostr, surf, and use freecad on occasion. I would like to eventually be able to run more local nostr stuff. I do not need to do anything too heavy with graphics of compute as I will never run an LLM on the laptop directly. If my T420 wasn't literally falling apart and costing more to fix than a new used laptop, I would be totally fine with it forever.

So . . . Whatcha got?

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Matt 5mo ago 💬 1

Probably Fedora. And then wait to upgrade for a month or two between versions. Fedora KDE has been good for several months, but I ran the Gnome version for years.

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Matt 5mo ago

Also, the standard Mint is Ubuntu based. They do have a Debian one if that's what you actually downloaded. Either way, I don't see the point of it anymore. They should just be developing Cinnamon and letting the rest go, in my opinion. All they seemed to do last I checked was screw around making Ubuntu something it doesn't want to be. I'm rambling.

Fedora is worth trying. Or vanilla Debian, but honestly it makes some things more complicated for noobs. Last I looked even getting ISOs was a pain. Then lots of driver stuff.

I'm also on a ThinkPad though. Fedora is known to work well with them.